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VMware Onyx the easy way to generate vSphere Power CLI & vCO Java Script Code
Every vSphere admin will get to a day where he wants to automate particular tasks, though he always have to weight the benefits vs the time required to automate using a vSphere Power CLI script or implementing the vCO Java Script Code required. What if you can generate such scripts and automation procedure in no…
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VMware vCenter Log Insight 1.5
With the continuous exponential growth of logs in the datacenter, it getting close to impossible to consume them the traditional way. This is no difference in a virtualized environment, where you have the logs for vCenter, ESXi hosts, virtual machines, OS of the VMs, Application logs, & so on. To help admins better digest and…
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Backup & Archive to the Cloud with PHD Virtual Backup 6.5
PHD Virtual has approached me for feedback on their upcoming PHD Virtual Backup 6.5. I have been granted access to an early beta version of the product to try it out, while they have added many enhancement to the product, the one that have got my attention the most is being able to send your…
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Software Defined Datacenter is a Game Changer
At VMworld, VMware will be blasting the world with its Software Defined Datacenter (SDDC) story. While VMware is at the center of the Software Defined Datacenter story, the VMware Software Defined Datacenter offering could put VMware at the Center of the IT Universe. The Software Defined Datacenter story remind me a lot of VMware initial…
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Restarting vCloud Network & Security Manager Web Service
Some time it happen that your vCloud Networking & Security Manager (vShield Manager) stop behaving & you want to restart it. One of the scenarios where you might need this if it stop synchronizing properly with vCenter or vCloud Director. The good news is most of these problems were resolved with the latest release of…
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VMware vCloud Director Stuck While Canceling Task
I have a customer who called me yesterday for having a task in vCloud Director that has been stuck in the cancelling stage for over a month. The problem has started after a power outage they had in their datacenter. vCloud Director is operating just fine, just that particular task was doing nothing and in…
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ATS-Only VMFS Volume ‘VMFS5’ not mounted. Host does not support ATS or ATS initialization has failed.
While being at a customer site last week, I was asked if I could help with a mysterious VMFS datastore behavior. That particular datastore out of a sudden became none accessible and they could not carry out any changes to it. They can not VMotion in or out of it, or even create a folder…
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Top 5 Veeam Backup & Replication V7 Innovations
For the past couple months, I have been following the features announcements of Veeam Backup & Replications V7 as they were introducing their innovation by every feature they announced during the count down. Before I get asked, Veeam has not yet announced general availability of Veeam Backup & Replication V7 but it should be pretty…
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vShield Manager is not synched with vCenter Server after you disconnect and reconnect the vShield Manager vNic
I had the problem where every now and then powering on vAPPs that utilize vShield fails and it reports that it failed because it could not create the required port group. This used to drive me crazy, especially the way I have found out to fix it was to reboot the vCloud Networking & Security…
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Configuring vCloud Director Provider SSO Federation
If you have already took the effort to build your vCenter Single Sign On server while upgrading to vSphere 5.1, then it might be worth while to benefit of it to unify your login to vCloud Director. Wouldn’t be nice if you don’t have to enter your credential separately for vCloud Director after you have…
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How to get Redhat 6.2 Linux Second NIC to Ping
While trying to setup the Redhat Linux machine with two interfaces to install vCloud Director into it, I had some funny problem with my network cards configuration. I have not installed vCloud Director yet at that time, so I was sure it is some Redhat Linux or networking problem rather than vCloud Director in specific.…
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VIB module for agent is not installed on host (vShield-VXLAN-service)
While delivering a vCloud engagement to one of our enterprise customers using the latest vCloud Director 5.1.2 and vCloud Networking & Security 5.1.2a, my VXLAN configuration where failing at the stage where its preparing the hosts. I followed the same steps I have used for other customers and in my lab with previous versions, which…
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Changing vCloud Networking & Security Console Password
While Changing the vCloud Networking & Security or vShield Manager Web Interface password is well documented at: Hardening vCloud Networking and Security 5.1.x virtual appliances, changing the console password of vCloud Network & Security or vShield Manager does not seems to be as well documented. Actually I have read in few places that its not…
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PHD Virtual ReliableDR is SLA focused
I have just been shown a demo by PHD Virtual of their latest version of ReliableDR, & the first thing I have noticed as the title stated that it is fully business SLAs focused. With the shift today to models like ITaas & IaaS where the availability of the full application from a business perspective…
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Please Vote for my #VMworld 2013 Sessions
I have came up with four sessions that I would like to present at VMworld 2013, but I need your help to make it reality. As you know VMworld sessions are chosen based on the community voting, so I need every vote I can get specially when many of the other sessions are done by…